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Winckelige-wyzer, van de sonnevolgen, of leeringe van de uytwerckinge des derden deels der...

Winckelige-wyzer, van de sonnevolgen, of leeringe van de uytwerckinge des derden deels der sterrekunst van alderley sonnevolgen. Dat is, hemelsche circulen en uuren-linien, hoe men de selve aen de opgerechte plattingen of muren... afteyckenen en vertoonen zal.

Amsterdam: Johannes Van Ravesteyn, 1670.

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A fine, crisp copy in modern drab boards. Very light dampstain to title and margin of opening leaves. Small paper defect in blank margin of one leaf, not affecting text. Illustrated throughout with 84 engraved diagrams and instruments.First edition of the Dutch translation of this work on sundials, chronometry, and...

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Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the...

Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the Lady Chudleigh

London: printed by W[illiam]. B[owyer]. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-ruled in panels, with floral ornaments on the boards and a gilt label on the spine. Discreet repairs to spine. A fine copy with very light soiling to the title and a few small ink spots.Mary Chudleigh was a friend of Elizabeth Thomas and an...

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M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri docti et in...

M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri docti et in recensendis authoris huius scriptis cauti & per diligentis: quem industria, quanta potuimus, co[n]sequuti, quasdam orationes redintegratas, tres libros De legibus multo quàm antea meliores, & reliquias de commentariis qui De republica inscripti erant, magno labore collectas vndique, descriptásque libris, vobis exhibemus. Eiusdem Victorii explicationes suarum in Ciceronem castigationum. Index rerum et verborum.

Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1538-, 1539.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in matching 18th c. speckled calfskin bindings, rebacked, the gilding to the spine largely preserved, minor wear, corners bumped. The text is clean and broad-margined, with just the occasional minor dampstain to the upper edge of the upper blank margin. A few 18th c. annotations and underscores. 17th(?) c....

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The Plea for Infants and Elder People, concerning their Baptisme. Or a processe of the passages...

The Plea for Infants and Elder People, concerning their Baptisme. Or a processe of the passages between M. John Smyth and Richard Clyfton: wherein, first is proved, that the baptising of Infants of beleevers, is an ordinance of God. Secondly, that the rebaptising of such, as have been formerly baptised in the Apostate Churches of Christians, is utterly unlawful

Amsterdam: Gyles Thorp, 1610.

Price: $9,800.00

Bound in 17th c. stiff vellum, somewhat soiled. A nice copy of this very rare Continental Puritan imprint. With skillful, discreet paper repairs to outer blank margins of some leaves, no loss to text, some other marks and minor marginal soiling, very small worm trail in blank lower margin of some...

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Hypnerotomachie ou Discours du songe de Poliphile. Deduisant comme Amour le combat à l'occasion...

Hypnerotomachie ou Discours du songe de Poliphile. Deduisant comme Amour le combat à l'occasion de Polia

Paris: [Jean Le Blanc] Pour Jaques Kerver à la Licorne, rue S. Jaques, 1561.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 16th c. French calfskin, rebacked, discreet repairs to corners, some minor scuffs and scrapes. The boards are ruled in blind, with small floral tools, gilt, at the angles, and a central cartouche, gilt, at the center of the boards. Additional blind-tooling was added at the time of rebacking...

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Rime della s. Vittoria Colonna marchesana illust. di Pescara. Con l'aggiunta delle rime...

Rime della s. Vittoria Colonna marchesana illust. di Pescara. Con l'aggiunta delle rime spirituali. Di nuovo ricorrette, per m. Lodovico Dolce.

Venice: appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1559.

Price: $3,500.00

Bound in 17th c. vellum, citron label, gilt, to spine. All edges blue. Title lightly toned, text a little loose. Two woodcut headpieces, four woodcut initials in text. Two versions of printer’s phoenix device (title and final leaf).The first edition of Colonna's “Rime” was printed in Parma by Viotto in...

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Cookery and Household Recipes notebook. Manuscript on paper, watermark: Britannia, countermark:...

Cookery and Household Recipes notebook. Manuscript on paper, watermark: Britannia, countermark: 1805. With an accounting note in the ms. dated 1835.

[England], c. 1835.

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Bound in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, with the contemporary signature ‘Anne Michel’ inked prominently on the upper cover, covers a trifle bowed, the odd small ink spot. A very good, clean copy. Written in an English cursive hand in black ink, very minor toning, first recto and last verso minimally dusty...

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Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois : qui apprend a ordonner toute sorte de repas en gras &...

Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois : qui apprend a ordonner toute sorte de repas en gras & en maigre, & la meilleure maniere des ragoûts les plus délicats & les plus à la mode, & toutes sortes de pâtisseries : avec des nouveaux desseins de tables ... [3 volumes].

Paris: Claude Prudhomme, 1733 [and], 1730.

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Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines richly tooled in gold, with labels (some wear to extremities, minor defects to leather, corners bumped.) Very nice copies internally, the woodcut plates and text crisp. George Baillie (1664-1738), Scottish politician and parliamentarian, armorial bookplates dated 1724. First published as a single volume in 1691 and...

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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI : habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & ædito,...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI : habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & ædito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos : & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos : habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facilli me calculare poteris : igitur eme, lege, fruere.

Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543.

Price: $2,500,000.00

Bound in attractive, contemporary Parisian calf with some discreet repairs. The boards are blind-ruled and adorned with gold-tooled ornaments. This is one of very few to have appeared on the market in a contemporary binding. The text is in excellent condition, with just minor blemishes (small early erasure of an...

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Commentariorum de bello aphrodisiensi libri quinque. Orazio CORSAIRS. OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Nocella,...

Commentariorum de bello aphrodisiensi libri quinque.

Rome: apud Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in a contemporary vellum binding using a re-purposed manuscript leaf). Printed in an elegant cursive by the Brescian brothers Valerio e Luigi Dorico, fine engravers and printers active in Rome from 1538 to 1559. A very good copy, with variable light spotting, outer corners slightly trimmed. With a two-page...

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Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia...

Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome.

London: printed by William Stansby for the author, 1611.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words...

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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $24,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

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Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes...

Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late fellow of St Peters Colledge in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition.

London: In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1670.

Price: $8,500.00

Contemporary English calf, upper joint cracked. Complete with the engraved frontispiece. Provenance: Richard Heber, his sale 1834, to Britwell Court; Richard Jennings.This collection of Crashaw’s poetry comprises the third edition (not the second, as the title states) of his “Steps to the Temple” (first 1646), the third edition of “The...

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Dante col sito, et forma dell’Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del Poeta. Dante Alighieri

Dante col sito, et forma dell’Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del Poeta

Venice: nelle Case d’Aldo et d’Andrea de Asola, August, 1515.

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With woodcut schematic diagrams of the sins punished in the Inferno and the moral scheme of Purgatory, as well as a double-paged woodcut illustration of the Inferno, based on the researches of Antonio Manetti (1423-1497). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device appears three times: on the title page, the recto...

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Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that...

Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. Upon the same ground, with the advantage of an historicall exemplification, apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue. By I.B. sirnamed the Chirosopher

London: for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1648.

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[Bound with:] Bulwer, John (active 1648-1654) Pathomyotomia or A dissection of the significative muscles of the affections of the minde. Being an essay to a new method of observing the most important movings of the muscles of the head, as they are the neerest and immediate organs of the voluntarie or impetuous...

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Devotions vpon emergent occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. Meditations...

Devotions vpon emergent occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. Meditations vpon our humane condition. 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God. 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to him. By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London. The third edition.

London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at the signe of the Black Rauen in the Strand, 1627.

Price: $20,000.00

A beautiful copy bound in its original Oxford binding of full calfskin, ruled in blind. The text is in excellent condition. This is a delightful copy of a book rarely encountered, especially in such fine condition. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jensen (booklabel) to Seven Gables, ca. 1971.“[The ‘Devotions’] present a more vivid...

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Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London....

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651.

Price: $12,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked so discreetly that it is impossible to see where the leather has been joined. The original gilded red morocco spine label is preserved and a double...

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Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London....

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651.

Price: $15,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary tanned sheep, rebacked and recornered, with gold ruling to the boards and spine. The text is on wonderfully fresh condition. The leaves are clean and bright with broad margins...

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $16,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of sprinkled calf, ruled in blind, with a discreet repair to the front joint and foot of the spine. The text is in fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after...

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $18,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of polished calf, ruled in blind, with only minor wear and abrasions. The text is in very fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after a lost miniature by Hillyard, showing...

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An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a...

An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The Third edition with additions.

London: Printed for A. Roper at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, both in Fleetstreet, 1697.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in modern paneled calf in period style. Internally a very fine, fresh copy with wide margins on crisp paper. Complete with the engraved frontispiece "The Compleat Beau", bound opposite the printed title page, trimmed close on the outer margin but without loss. With just the lightest bit of soiling...

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An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a...

An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The Second Edition.

London: printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, in Fleetstreet, 1696.

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[Bound with:] A Farther Essay Relating to the Female-Sex. Containing Six Characters, and Six Perfections. With the description of Self Love. To which is added, a Character of a Compleat Beau. London: Printed for A. Roper and E Wilkinson at the Black-Boy in Fleet-street, 1696 Octavo: 17.2 x 10.5 cm. I. [24], 148...

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Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII....

Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII.

London: printed [by R. Young] for Iohn Smethwick, 1637.

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Bound in 19th c. polished, gold-ruled blond calf, with gilt turn-ins and the spine richly tooled in gold, with green morocco labels. Text in fine condition throughout, a.e.g. Complete with engraved t.p. by William Marshall and the first leaf (blank except for sig. mark). "Englands heroicall epistles" and "The legends...

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Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem...

Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem versibus expressum per eumdem. Accessit et ejusdem elegia ad illustriss. principem Carolum card. Lotharingum.

Paris: Frédéric Morel, 1559.

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Bound in 19th c. speckled calf, ruled in gold (hinges rubbed, small loss at head of spine.) A fine copy. Small clean tear to blank margin of plate. Printed in Latin and French. Morel’s printer’s device on the title. Attractive ornamental initials. With the oversized woodcut plate of the fictive...

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Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins. Albrecht Dürer

Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins.

Germany: ca. 1496.

Price: $12,000.00

A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...

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